A colleague asked Chrissie (Turkington) a little while ago about the use of the Amazon Kindle eReader within academic libraries. They'd heard that there may be legal issues surrounding it's use and the use of digital content purchased from Amazon.co.uk and the UK Kindle Store.

So, Chrissie got in touch with Amazon Customer Services:

"If a library had purchased Kindle readers using their own account for loaning (on a non-commercial basis) to borrowers, are they licensed to also perm...

Why scrap a perfectly useful catalogue system if it will work with the latest advancements?

Dewey Digger is an interesting attempt to catalogue the web according to the Dewey Decimal System.

To use Dewey Digger just...

• click on a Dewey Decimal category;
• select a topic in that category; Dewey Digger presents twenty-seven sources of information;
• Click on any of the provided sources to see...
  • articles;
  • videos; and
  • images on your chosen topic.

Dewey Digger could be a nic...

Dulcinea Media, host of the academic search engine Sweet Search <http://www.sweetsearch.com/>, has a new free offering for family learning and other practitioners and learners called Sweet Search 2 Day.

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